Pato is very quick but is too often left isolated upfront, or has to pay the flanks. When Sheva was at his best he and Ricky would run through the middle with Cafu galloping along the right wing, now we just seem to hoof it to Pato and hope he can do something magical. Our general pay is far too slow and predictable and we need faster players.

I see your point and to some extent it is quite valid. From watching La Liga I would say the majority of games are wide open as they don't know how to defend, hence they just keep attacking. Now compare that to the Serie A where defending used to be an art form, but it seems it is getting more open now.

I would say gli meravigliosa were at their peak from around the 2003/04 till 2005/2006

We were completely dismantling everything in our path in 03/04 (except Depor), we really were unstoppable that season and the arguably the next

I don't think it's getting more open I believe the defenses are a lot weaker. I miss man-marking.


You are right we were so powerful back then. We could only lose to ourselves and that's what I think happened against Depor.

If only the management kept bringing some new blood every season instead of 'we're fine as we are'ing us...

I'm really pessimistic about Milan's near future. I feel next season we won't do any better in the CL than we did last season i.e. our glory days in the CL are over. both the coach and many players have to go so we can start a new good one and I don't see the management willing to let either of them go.

Any new blood? What about this season? We signed a few players you know...and we have more then decent players spread around Italy and beyond, under contract at Milan.

Till Berlusconi is in management, even a shadow-figure, I'm sure Milan's future is secure, 100%.

We didn't do much for a couple of successive seasons and then we tried to make up for it by signing 11 new players in one transfer window, and it didn't really work out well. renewing a team has to be done gradually, not suddenly....

So what? Now is a new chance and we'll do well. Last transfer period we solved some vital points and now we have a little less to take care. I don't think pessimsm should be larpurlartistic...

for ****s sake man!!

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That makes me laugh. Especially when we have issues paying 20 million for players while other clubs drop 30 like its nothing.


With that kind of mindset and increasing prices on the markets, I worry about Milans future ever more. As Galliani has even said, we can no longer compete with english clubs or spanish clubs.


That puts serie A and Milan in 3rd in line when it comes to signing players. If we can barely be able to fork over 20 million, how are you expecting us to compete when Barca can pay 30 for Alves and act as if its nothing.

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Thats why I think Berlu should sell the club to a foreign owner so we can be able to compete like Milan should compete. He doesn't have the money to just dish out cash like other club owners do. At this rate things will keep going further and further down for us.

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Apr 9 2009, 11:37 AM

(belatedly for zeddie) Roberto Rosetti is refereeing Bayern-Barca today (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Too bad I can't watch that game (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)


Chelsea 0-1 Liverpool. coooool goal by Aurelio

This post has been edited by Zed.D: Apr 14 2009, 08:06 PM

1-0 arbeloa, god cech sucks nowadays

It's been all Liverpool so far.